UPCOMING EVENTS
Clare is a triple award-winning executive, team & board coach, global speaker & Founder of BECKETT MCINROY & CoachME. She partners with people & organisations to explore what matters, challenge familiar patterns & turn learning into meaningful change. She blends challenge & support, always with an eye on impact for the individual & for the wider stakeholders their work touches. Expect warmth, curiosity & the occasional question that stays with you long after the conversation.
Clare’s career spans internal coaching & L&D advisory work, including responsibility for budgets of more than US$1 million. Today she designs & delivers bespoke leadership development for organisations across sectors worldwide, including Fortune 100 companies, & co-creates culture change & engagement from the inside out. Through CoachME’s award-winning, ICF-accredited coach education, she trains leaders & professionals to become credentialed coaches at ACC, PCC & MCC level.
She leads a global team of coaches, SUPERvisors, trainers & facilitators, & partners with individuals & organisations including the University of Cambridge, EY, Qatar International Court, Ooredoo, Etihad Airways, Al Jazeera Media Network, LEGO, Citi, Qatar Foundation, DHL & Aramco.
Clare brings a relational, systemic & creative approach to executive, team & board coaching, training, Mentor Coaching & SUPERvision. Her practice is integrative, drawing on gestalt, psychodynamic & existential approaches, among others. She makes space for different perspectives & ways of learning, from metaphor & imagery to embodied exploration. Expect pauses for thinking, incisive questions & playful experiments with LEGO bricks, image cards & music. She cares deeply about co-creating belonging & accessibility, & about helping practitioners find their own voice.
Clare creates interactive spaces for professional learning & culture transformation. She has spoken at ICF Converge on numerous occasions, at Harvard University & the University of Manchester, & at EMCC & AC conferences. A thought leader in creative approaches to coaching, Mentor Coaching & SUPERvision, she researches & writes on coaching & practitioner development. Her publications include Creative Reflective Practice, & she is the editor of Mentor Coaching Mixology, coming very soon.
Clare co-founded ICF Bahrain & ICF Qatar, contributes to the ICF Advisory Committee for Team Coaching, SUPERvision & Mentor Coaching, & has contributed to numerous research projects with EMCC & AC. She also provides pro bono support to charities. Her recognition includes EMCC Coach of the Year, & CoachME / BECKETT MCINROY has received the ICF Coaching Impact Award as a training provider. The award-winning CoachME Model has been translated into more than 60 languages (including Klingon), & the flagship Leader as Coach programme has run for more than 15 years, with over 2,000 graduates.
Clare holds a Research Doctorate in Leadership and Development (EdD) from University of Bath, UK, a Master degree from The Open University, UK, a Post Graduate Certificate from Manchester Metropolitan University in Career Coaching and 3 post-graduate Diplomas in SUPERvision. She is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC), holds the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC), & holds both the ICF Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS) & the ICF Coaching SUPERvisor Specialization (CSS). With EMCC, she is a Master Practitioner (MP) in mentoring, coaching & team coaching, & an accredited SUPERvisor (ESIA). Clare is also Gender Audit Certified from International Labour Organisation (ILO).
| Favourite number
27 |
Countries visited
50+ & counting |
| Coaching hours
5,000+ |
Postgraduate qualifications
5, & still learning |
| Greatest swim
Once swam from Guyana to Brazil |
In the kitchen
Bakes fruit cake without ever following a recipe |
| Rhythm section
Plays the drums |
Favourite season
Autumn |
Away from work, you’ll find her swimming, listening to audiobooks, or walking & eating out with family & friends. Her curiosity travels with her, whether she’s working with a board, sharing ideas with fellow practitioners or asking what else might be possible.
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